Good open source Visio and Outlook alternatives? - General Questions

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wifi4milez Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace join:2004-08-07 New York, NY	reply to wifi4milez Re: Good open source Visio and Outlook alternatives? I decided to test out Thunderbird, and so far I like it. However, is there any way for me to set it up so that when I read a Gmail message it also reflects "read" on Gmail's servers? Right now I need to check "read" on both Thunderbird and then on my phone since they dont sync.
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bdnhsv join:2012-01-20 Huntsville, AL	do you have it et up as IMAP or POP3?
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wifi4milez Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace join:2004-08-07 New York, NY	I have it setup as POP3. Should I change it to IMAP?
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mod_wastrel Gone fishin' join:2008-03-28	I use only IMAP with Gmail. If I used POP at all it would be to maintain a local backup copy of what's on Google's servers (but I don't bother with that).
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wifi4milez Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace join:2004-08-07 New York, NY	So would changing it to IMAP allow the read messages to sync? Also, would that delete the message on Google server after reading it?
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mod_wastrel Gone fishin' join:2008-03-28	Google provides some essential info about IMAP and using it with Gmail here: »support.google.com/mail/bin/topi···tx=topic Mozilla also provides some info for Tb here: »kb.mozillazine.org/Using_Gmail_w···la_Suite Essentially, using IMAP allows you to sync what you do in the client back to the server--read in one is read in both, same with deleted. -- "Sorry for not responding to your post, but either I haven't seen it yet, or what you said was so devoid of substance that I found it utterly uninteresting."
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wifi4milez Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace join:2004-08-07 New York, NY	Excellent, thanks.
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wifi4milez Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace join:2004-08-07 New York, NY	reply to newview said by newview: I highly recommend you take a look at LibreOffice ... quote: OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed in recent years by Sun Microsystems as an open source project. But when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009, the future of Sun's software offerings -- particularly free ones like OpenOffice.org -- was called into question. Before long, key OpenOffice.org developers, unhappy with the status quo under Oracle, began defecting from the project. The result was LibreOffice, a new fork of the OpenOffice.org code base that's maintained by a nonprofit organization called the Document Foundation. »www.infoworld.com/d/applications···fice-716 I am downloading LibreOffice as we speak! -- "No you won't" -The American people to President Obama (11/2/2010)
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nonamesleft join:2011-11-07 Manitowoc, WI	reply to wifi4milez Last time I installed thunderbird for someone and later on they wanted to switch back to outlook. Good luck getting those messages over, unless that has changed recently?
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howardfine join:2002-08-09 Saint Louis, MO	reply to wifi4milez I know I'm late to this but Dia was mentioned. Many on *nix use Dia as a Visio alternative and it's highly recommended but I haven't used it myself.
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mod_wastrel Gone fishin' join:2008-03-28	reply to nonamesleft said by nonamesleft: Good luck getting those messages over IMAP sync handles that automatically for you.
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wifi4milez Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace join:2004-08-07 New York, NY	reply to wifi4milez I must say that with a few hours of being MS free I am surprisingly happy. Obviously I need more time to fully test everything, but so far Thunderbird and LibreOffice have done what I need. Given that this is just for personal use, I am hopeful that things stay as positive as they look now.
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OZO Premium join:2003-01-17 kudos:2	I've replaced Outlook with Thunderbird several years ago. One thing that I hate about Thunderbird is how it handles its editor window. And particularly: `Crtl+Left` and `Ctrl+Right` requests (which I use quite often). The cursor jumps far, far away from the place, where it has been and where I expect it should be, sometimes skipping several empty lines at once... It'w weird and annoying. Why they don't just use common practice, implemented in many other Windows applications? -- Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...
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newview Ex .. Ex .. Exactly Premium join:2001-10-01 Parsonsburg, MD kudos:1 Reviews: ·Vonage ·DIRECTV	reply to wifi4milez said by wifi4milez: I am downloading LibreOffice as we speak! I used various MS Office products from 2003-2007 at work, but couldn't begin to justify their prices for home ... so I had been using OpenOffice for awhile till I read about the developer split going on. I've been using LibreOffice now for quite a bit ... and personally I think it's better than OpenOffice ... ymmv.
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